XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum

University of Texas at Austin, 11, 12 and 13 August, 2008

What's Hippocratic about the Hippocratics?

Keynote Addresses:

Monday August 11^th: Jacques Jouanna ((Université de Paris, Sorbonne)
"Le régime dans la Collection hippocratique: la notion de diaita, et les grands problèmes."

Tuesday August 12^th:Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
“The Oath and the oaths: Is the Hippocratic Oath Hippocratic?”

The series of triennial Colloquia began in 1972. This will be the first time it has been held in the US.

The conference brings together scholars and students of ancient medicine, science, philosophy, history and literature with the aim of advancing our understanding and refining our usage of the term “Hippocratic.”

The term is conventionally used to refer to the authors, texts, theories and practices of the Corpus Hippocraticum, which share a basic scientific outlook but which are notoriously polemical one with another. To date most research has focused on disparities between treatises and polemical relationships between authors. The papers in the conference will look more for specific commonalities and clusters of shared theories and practices. In so doing, we hope to identify in what ways, if any, the Corpus as a whole, or at least the major part of it, can be differentiated from other rationalist medical theories of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. as illustrated in, e.g., the theories contained in the Anonymus Londinensis, the writings of Diokles of Karystos, papyrus fragments of medicine not duplicated in the Corpus and references to medicine in non-medical texts.

The main question the conference addresses is:

“Does the Corpus result from a haphazard collection of rational medical treatises or were there criteria for selection that deemed some rational medicine ineligible for inclusion in it?”

Papers in the conference examine this issue both by intertextual study of two or more treatises within the Corpus and by comparison of treatises to works outside the Corpus (literary, historical and philosophical as well as medical).

Inquiries about the conference should be addressed to Professor Lesley Dean-Jones.

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E-mail:	ldjones@mail.utexas.edu
Telephone:	(512) 471 2352 or (512) 471 5742.
Surface mail:	Department of Classics, 1 University Station #C3400, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

Student Bursaries The National Science Foundation has made available 6 student bursaries for attendance at the conference for students at US institutions who are interested in pursuing research in ancient Greco-Roman medicine. The bursaries will cover registration fees (which includes breakfasts, lunches, opening reception, banquet and excursion) dorm-room accommodation for 4 nights, and $300 towards travel expenses. To be eligible students should be either in a Classics graduate program in the US or planning to enter one by Fall 2009 at the latest. A student's letter of application should explain their interest in Greco-Roman medicine and be accompanied by a transcript. A letter of support from a faculty member should be sent under separate cover. Both letters should be addressed to Professor Lesley Dean-Jones. Deadline: Monday June 16th, 2008.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

R.J. Hankinson, University of Texas at Austin
Julie Laskaris, University of Richmond
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
Walt Schalick, University of Wisconsin at Madison, School of Medicine

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Marquis Berrey
Beth Chichester
Matt Ervin
Laurie Gonzalez
Constanze Witt

The languages of the conference will be English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Colloquium Abstracts will be posted at this site, in due time.

signet ring, doctor examining boy in the presence of Aesculapius (Roman, British Museum)

modified April 29, 2008